130 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vov. ViII, 
no. 89 (1889); Ogilvie Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvu, p. 391 
(1892) ; Salvad. Bull. Mus. Zool. Turin, x1, p. 6 (1896). 
a-d. 4 6. Siolak Daras, Korinchi Valley, Sumatra, 
3,000 feet. 21st March, 1914. [Nos. 279- 
282. | 
“Male, iris carmine, bill black, horn at tip, feet greenish 
slate, orbital skin livid silvery cobalt, gular skin purplish.” 
Travelling in flocks of considerable size, sometimes of 
fifteen or twenty individuals and feeding on lower and smaller 
trees than is usually the case with the larger species. 
Merops viridis, Linn. . 
Merops sumatranus, Raffles; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 
Xiv, p. 192 (1879); Nicnolson, Ibis, 1882, p. 56; id. op. cit. 1883, 
p- 243; Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. ix, p. 36 (1887) ; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvu, p. 61 (1891); Salvad. Bull. Mus. 
Zool. Turin, xi, p. 6 (1896). ; 
Merops badius, Snelleman in Veth’s Midden-Sumatra 
Exped. Vogels, iv, p. 36 (1884). 
Merops bicolor, Vorderman, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. xlix, p. 
393, no. 102 (1889). 
Merops bicolor sumatranus, Parrot, Abh. Konigl. Akad. 
Bayer ll xxiv, eBid; pangsn(oo7): 
Merops viridis, Linn.; Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvu, p. 482 
(1910); Robinson, Journ. Fed. Malay States, Mus. vil, p. 151 
(1917). 
a-g. 265%. Pasir Ganting, West Sumatran Coast, 
Pais 2% S.. w-7OUN Iwi, wer [INOS 
1995-6, 2038, 2043, 2049, 2056-7. | 
“Tris red, bill and feet black.”’ 
This species was very common at Pasir Ganting hawking 
for insects along the shore and river. Curiously enough, with 
the single exception noted under the following species not a 
single bee-eater was ever seen in the Korinchi country, though 
it might have been thought that the valley was eminently 
suited both for this species and for M. philippinus, while in the 
Malay Peninsula Nyctiornis amicta occurs at over 4,000 feet in 
heavy jungle. 
In the face of Dr. Hartert’s remarks we have no option 
_but to transfer the name of the common Indian Green Bee-eater 
to this Indo-Malayan species. 
43. Nyctiornis amicta (Temm.). 
Merops anucta, Temm.; Snelleman in Veth’s Midden- 
Sumatra Exped. Vogels, iv, p. 3 (1884). 
Nyctiorms amicta (Yemm.); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 
XIV, p. 192 (1879); Nicholson, Ibis, 1882, p. 56; Buttikofer, 
Notes Leyden Mus. ix, p. 36 (1887); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Expedition to Korinchi; 
